Jane Austen and Leisure
by David Selwyn
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- ISBN: 9781852851712 (1852851716)
- Language: english
- Format: hardcover, 376 pages
- Release date: July 1, 1998
- Author: David Selwyn
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
About The Book
Jane Austen’s novels portray a leisured society of gentlemen and ladies who do not need to work. Even the minority of clergymen, soldiers and sailors — men with professions — are almost never seen working. Jane Austen herself, despite responsibility for some domestic tasks, wrote as a woman of leisure. Yet leisure, the distinguishing mark of a gentleman, was not meant to be an excuse for idleness. The proper use of leisure to fulfil duties, to read and to think, and above all to pursue social relations in a world where family and marriage for the propertied was of central importance, was a vital test of character.
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